Take a look at events, projects and accomplishments from the Department of Art & Public Policy and our community of faculty, students and alumni. Photos and descriptions below.
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Alexander Cavaluzzo - Named the 1st Writing Fellow at Velvetpark Media, 2025
Friday, Sep 20, 2024
Alexander Cavaluzzo is a Manhattan-based writer and artist whose work frequently integrates aesthetics and politics. Alexander is an APP alum.
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Art & Public Policy Chair and Professor Pato Hebert is an Artist in Residence at Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts & Agriculture in Sisters, Oregon
Monday, Jul 29, 2024
The residency’s theme and focus on transitions and migration resonates deeply with Hebert’s ongoing explorations of history, decolonialism, and the impacts of imperialism on people and places.
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Professor Kathy Engel releases new poetry collection, Dear Inheritors
Monday, Jul 22, 2024
APP Professor Kathy Engel launched her new book, "Dear Inheritors" on Monday June 10th at the Lower East Side Girls Club.
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Art & Public Policy Alums colloborate on exhibition, “Entangled Futures” on Governors Island
Monday, Jul 15, 2024
This constellation of artists is an invitation into expansion, into relational entanglement, into truthtelling as a practice of reclamation, transformation, and healing.
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APP Alum Nina Riley performed her original play “Aftermath: Analyzing Anguish” as part of the BLACK FEMME FREEDOM FEST: A VIBECOLLAB JOINT
Wednesday, Jul 10, 2024
Aftermath: Analyzing Anguish written by Nina Riley, is an experimental ritual performance and developing play exploring grief and it’s impact on the body and spirit. A journey into how we transcend time and space through poetics.
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Professor and Chair Pato Hebert presented at the conference, “Caring Futures: Contradictions, Transformation, and Revolutionary Possibilities” in Paris, France
Tuesday, Jul 2, 2024
Along with his collaborators, Pato read from the group essay, “When We’re Coming From: What Would an HIV Doula Do? on Pandemic Time(s)” which first appeared last year in “Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies”
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Professor Kathy Engel's poem “Life Support” featured in Guggenheim Museum exhibition
Monday, Jun 24, 2024
Lines from APP Professor Kathy Engel's poem “Life Support” (1982) from the 2007 collection We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon (edited with Kamal Boullata) are included in the exhibition, "Jenny Holzer: Light Line," currently on view at the Guggenheim Museum.
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Art and Public Policy Professor Anna Deavare Smith will deliver the 73rd A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts at the National Art Gallery!
Monday, May 13, 2024
Art and Public Policy Professor Anna Deavare Smith will deliver the 73rd A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts at the National Art Gallery!
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APP Alum Camonghne Felix has a new poem in The Nation!
Monday, May 13, 2024
APP Alum Camonghne Felix has a new poem in The Nation, titled 'At the door of integration, I turned around'.
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Congratulations to APP Alum Alissa Bidwell for her acceptance into the University of Minnesota’s PhD program in Theatre Historiography & Performance Studies!
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Congratulations to APP Alum Alissa Bidwell who was recently accepted into the University of Minnesota’s PhD program in Theatre Historiography & Performance Studies!
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